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(19) As for the souls of the other living beings, fallen to
the degree of entering brute bodies, these too must be immortal.
And if there is in the animal world any other phase of soul, its
only possible origin, since it is the life-giver, is, still, that
one principle of life: so too with the soul in the vegetal order.
All have sprung from one source, all have life as their own, all
are incorporeal, indivisible, all are real-beings.
If we are told that man's soul being tripartite must as a
compound entity be dissolved, our answer shall be that pure souls
upon their emancipation will put away all that has fastened to
them at birth, all that increment which the others will long
retain.
But even that inferior phase thus laid aside will not be
destroyed as long as its source continues to exist, for nothing
from the realm of real being shall pass away.
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